{"id":461,"date":"2018-06-24T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T17:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.h2ak.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2018-06-24T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T05:53:23","slug":"stemhead-fitting-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Stemhead fitting found!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking for a replacement stemhead fitting for the Lady Jane. As it came to me, the boat had a loosely held on amalgum of hardware hanging out of a hole in the deck. It was comprozed of a worn bronze bow loop, two bent up and modified stainless steel tangs, and a brass sheave box for an internally run sail adjustment line.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, hokey. Not something I’d trust, and even if I did I would have had to remove the sheave box as I plan to seal the forward part of the bow into a watertight flotation compartment.<\/p>\n

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Here we see the hole the sheave box was in to direct a jib downhaul belowdecks. In addition, the stem comes up above the deck. I believe this is because while the 1960’s measurement certificate i got from the class association notes the boat had a 5\/8 thick deck, at some point that had been replaced with a 3\/8 plywood deck.<\/p>\n

I cut a piece of wood to fit the sheave box hole and after coating it and the hole in epoxy I then fit it in the hole with a bunch of epoxy thickened with fairing additive.<\/p>\n

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I then hit it with my power plane a few times to get it close and finished up with the sander.<\/p>\n

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I’ll need to fair it in a little more when I do the deck, but the repair is a good starting point.<\/p>\n

I also needed to find a stem head fitting to replace what had been on there.<\/p>\n

So, I started by looking online. Turns out there aren’t many suppliers for these kinds of things, and as the lightning is a massive dinghy most that are available from racelite and the like are undersized for it. I made inquiries with friends, used parts suppliers and sources but came up empty. I started looking at boats down at Shilshole, walking the docks, still a solution didn’t come to me. I started focusing on small keel boats. I found some descriptions of a stemhead fitting for a J\/24, and it seemed like something i could make work.<\/p>\n

I joined the J\/24 Facebook group, and after a quick post, a week, and $60, I had a stemhead fitting on it’s way to Seattle. I had hoped it was something \u00a0I could make work. When it arrived, I was shocked. I set it on the boat.\u00a0
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This wasn’t a\u00a0‘This will work with a little modification’ situation, this was a ‘This couldn’t be better if it was custom engineered for this boat’ situation.<\/p>\n

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The plate even covers the repaired area from the sheave box and is sniped to match the bow’s taper!<\/p>\n

So, Score! another thing checked off the list.<\/p>\n

Besides this, I’ve also been working on the mast step\/centerboard trunk\/deck tie in structure and the start of the watertights, but I’ll cover those in their own posts when they get a little further along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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